Contemporary romance

‘If you are a fan of Kathryn Ledson or Janet Evanovich (though Jesse Clarke is a lot more reliable, sensible and doesn’t over share her personal life as does Stephanie Plumb) you will love unravelling the mysteries in the Jesse Clarke series.’ Carol,  Reading, Writing and Riesling.

Jesse thought sugar was such a friendly substance, until it appears in two of her cases for all the wrong reasons. Traces of sugar were connected to a bomb that blew up her client’s Mercedes. Was the bomb meant to kill or was it just a warning of what is to come? And could sugar have duped the immune system of a client’s mother over thirty years ago, resulting in death?

Juggling the two cases—one in the present and one in the past—Jesse finds herself talking to the living and the dead to get results.

Eighty-nine-year-old Carrie Howell, dressed in her Sunday-best, asks her grand-daughter, Rachael, to stop a while in front of the rambling old mansion-Autumn Manor. Who are these people her grandmother is remembering and what is her connection to the ‘haunted house’ that Rachael avoided as a child?

Ophelia’s first love might be her last. In her wildest dreams, Ophelia Montague never imagined she would leave the city, her friends, her school and move to a seaside village.

But when her parents die in an accident, that’s just where she finds herself – ensconced in a rambling house on the beach, with her uncle, Sebastian, his boarder—19-year-old Adam Ferrier, and two Great Dane dogs named after shipwrecks.

By the ocean’s edge she meets Jack Denham who seems to command the sea and the moon—and if he has his way—Ophelia, too.

Holly Hanlon is having a sea change – starting again in a seaside village. Holly finds things or rather they find her… so no-one was surprised when she opened her small business, Missing Me – Lost, Found and Broken. But finding love and finding the one was a whole different matter. Unbeknown to Holly her new abode in Findlater Lane came with a housemate – Sergeant Alexander Austen – a handsome ghost who thinks he knows best.

Was Holly afraid? Not in the daylight hours when she was happy to help him pack up and move on. Up until now, the Sergeant had done a reasonable job of scaring off potential tenants and he anticipated getting rid of Holly would be no problem. And so, Holly and the Sergeant were both calling Findlater House home. For now.